I have webbed feet. At work so can't add a picture, but technically, does that make me a mutant? (Also, my mother, grandmother and daughter all have the same oddity, so it is a genetic abnormality, I guess.

With wonderful captions, such as: "This strung-out looking thing is the aye aye lemur, which appears to have crawled its way out of the rancid vagina of a Victorian prostitute and went straight to work hiding in children's bedrooms to steal their dreams."

In sufferers of the disease, the skin contains massive, diamond-shaped scales, and tends to have a blue color. In addition, the eyes, ears, mouth, and other appendages may be abnormally contracted. The scaly keratin greatly limits the child's movement. Because the skin is cracked where normal skin would fold, it is easily pregnable by bacteria and other contaminants, resulting in serious risk of fatal infection.

Sufferers are known as harlequin fetuses, harlequin babies, or harlequins.

Don't go searching for the topic on Google Image search if you have a weak stomach. That drawing doesn't really give a good idea of how gruesome the condition looks in real life.

The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot. The Karki couple is a permanent resident of Dolakha’s Bhirkot VDC.

“the baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formation. The baby would have died a few days later. That’s why women are advised to take folate in early pregnancy.”

So naturally scientists are researching the spiders with hopes to develop another drug for ED. Viagra and its colleagues work by stopping the chemical that makes erections go away; the venom in this spider works through a different mechanism, by ramping up the chemical that's responsible for erections in the first place.

With regard to the 13 animals out of your nightmares, my 5th grade class bred tailless whip scorpions in captivity (and our teacher was the first person to ever successfully do it). I have a bit of a soft spot for them because of it. They're pretty weird looking, but they are harmless, and they eat pest bugs so it's cool.

I'm kind of amazed that this hasn't been done before, now that I've read it. It's such a simple, obvious concept — vaccinate people with something that will cause their bodies to produce antibodies when exposed to things like cocaine and nicotine, so it doesn't effect them anymore.

This thread is great. I have an ongoing battle with a friend of mine - he sends me wretched '80s music videos that inexplicably get stuck in my head; I retaliate by sending him nightmarish pictures of mother nature's abominations. Keep 'em coming!